If %pl will be complete like we all hoped for FTN95 will start competing with MATLAB, as it will offer the same plus much more.

Remember FTN77-FTN90-FTN95 advertisement circa 1990th? "You do not need to learn C/C++, or find third-party Windows programming SDK, or do some graphics including OpenGL, this Fortran compiler will offer you most of their functionality all in one package and all in Fortran". Mentioning Matlab is clearly missing here